Idoceras

Idoceras
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctaceae
Family: Perisphinctidae
Genus: Idoceras
Burckhardt, 1906


Idoceras is a genus of perisphictacean ammonite, belonging to the Perisphinctidae subfamily Idoceratinae. The genus is known from the Upper Jurassic, with a widespread distribution. Shells of Idoceras are evolute, with a wide umbilicus; ribbing strong, bifurcate high on flanks. Suture simpler than in the similar Ataxioceras.

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